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Moon Point

Director: Sean Cistema

Canada 2011, 85 min, Digital

Mar 31 (2012) @ 7pm
Apr 1 (2012) @ 1pm
Apr 2 (2012) @ 9pm
Apr 5 (2012) @ 9:30pm

A hit of last year's Edmonton International Film Fest, this funny, quirky story features further Edmonton connections! The film follows the life of Darryl Strozka, an ambitionless 24 year old who travels hundreds of miles in a wagon hooked onto... view more

Norwegian Wood

Director: Anh Hung Tran

Japan 2011, 133 min, 35mm

Mar 30 & Apr 4 (2012) @ 9pm
Mar 31 (2012) @ 1:30pm
Apr 1 (2012) @ 2:45pm
Apr 1 & 3 (2012) @ 7pm

Tokyo, the late 1960s…Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But... view more

Tyrannosaur

Director: Paddy Considine

UK 2011, 91 min, 35mm

Mar 30, Apr 2 & 4 (2012) @ 7pm
Mar 31, Apr 1 & 3 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Apr 1 (2012) @ 5:15pm

This feature directorial debut from much-admired British actor Paddy Considine is one from the heart - and the guts. A study in masculine rage and the stubborn durability of our need to connect, _Tyrannosaur_ excavates the dark cavities within the... view more

Special Event

Apr 5 (2012) @ 7pm

The Gold Rush

Director: Charlie Chaplin

USA 1925, 88 min, 35mm

Apr 6 (2012) @ 12:30pm
Apr 7 (2012) @ 7pm
Apr 8 (2012) @ 2:45pm

Despite its reputation as one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema, _The Gold Rush_ has long been unavailable in its original form, following Chaplin's 1942 "sound version" and his dictate that the original only be screened with live orchestral... view more

Albert Nobbs

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

UK/Ireland 2011, 113 min, 35mm

Apr 6 (2012) @ 2:15pm
Apr 6, 8, 11 & 12 (2012) @ 7pm
Apr 7 (2012) @ 4pm
Apr 7 & 9 (2012) @ 9pm
Apr 8 (2012) @ 12:30pm
Apr 9 (2012) @ 2:45pm
Apr 10 (2012) @ 9:30pm

_Albert Nobbs_ unfolds within the opulent rooms of Dublin’s most luxurious hotel, a place designed for the enjoyment of the privileged class. For those who live and work there, however, private dramas are unfolding, and much is not as it... view more

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

Director: Constance Marks

USA 2011, 76 min, DigiBeta

Apr 6 & 8 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Apr 6 & 12 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Apr 7 & 10 (2012) @ 2pm
Apr 9 (2012) @ 7pm

This film traces Kevin Clash’s rise from his modest beginnings in Baltimore to his current success as the man behind Elmo, one of the world’s most recognizable and adored characters. Millions of children tune in daily to watch Elmo, yet... view more

The Room

Director: Tommy Wiseau

USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm

Apr 6 (2012) @ 11pm

Can one man make a film so awful the only thing it’s good for is ridicule, film a sex scene so repulsive you’d rather have it star your grandparents, and make a film so beautiful it has “the passion of... view more

7th May, 2013

Programmer's Blurb May 2013

By : metro

Hi everyone,

The cinema exhibition industry has spent the last few years converting to Digital Cinema presentation, and Metro Cinema has now fully entered this brave new world, with the installation of the last part of our Digital Cinema system, we are now able to screen DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages).
Some of our DCPs this month include new titles like Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter, Wrong by Quentin Dupieux and Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine; alongside classics like The Tin Drum, Taxi Driver and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Canadian theatrical premiere of Unclaimed, by Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson. All are screening from DCP.

However, what sets Metro Cinema apart from most ...

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